Painting, collage, humor, the unusual, movies, art galleries, museums, film festivals, nice people (no liars or haters), documentaries, antiques, lowbrow art, old magazines and photos, matchcovers, dvds, model railroads, slot car racing, sightseeing, classic planes, trains, automobiles, motorcycles, dark art, good food, ufology, space exploration, astronomical art, soundtracks, futurism, surrealism, dreams, 40s and 50s fashion, visionary art, architecture, psychology, science, Disneyland, indieclub, theater, acting, animation, writing, directing, and filmmaking. I'd like to take a moment to thank the little people - you know, the ones who pilot the flying saucers. The physics of the whole interstellar space travel thing just isn't getting any easier so thanks guys. Just stay the f*@k out of my room.
The Beautiful People Who Make Art.
Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Eric Serra, James Horner, Randy Newman, John Barry, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Maurice Jarre, Lalo Schifrin, Rachel Portman, Angelo Badalamenti, Thomas Newman, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, Georges Delarue, Wojeiech Kilar, Mychael Danna, James Newton Howard, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, The Cranberries, Claudine, Sinead O'Connor, The Crystal Method, Sarah Brightman, Renee Fleming, Rogers and Hammerstein, The Art of Noise, Negativland, Bjork, Julie London, Joni James, Brasil '66 Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Tony Bennett, The Three Tenors, techno, electronica, Big Band, Jazz, old bluegrass, Ravel, Pachebel, Barber, Verdi, Puccini, Debussy, Chopin, Satie, Vivaldi, Dvorak . . .
So many great films, so many great directors. A few of my favorite directors are: David Lynch, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Silvestri, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, Lawrence Kasdan, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Julie Taymor, Baz Luhrman, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Fincher, Richard Donner, Werner Herzog, Luc Besson, Terrence Malick, Robert Zemeckis, Martin Scorcese, Tim Burton, Miranda July, Terry Zwigoff, and Alfred Hitchcock. I watch for great cinematography and production design. Some of my favorite films are: Blue Velvet, Lost Hightway, Mulholland Dr., Pretty As A Picture: The Art of David Lynch, The Elephant Man, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Godfather, La Dolce Vita, The Clowns, Contact, The Thin Red Line, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, My Voyage To Italy, Eraserhead, Tales From The Crypt ('72), Vertigo, Wyatt Earp, Saving Private Ryan, Road To Perdition, JFK, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssy, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Brazil, Titus, Frida, The Professional, The Fifth Element, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lord of the Rings, The Man Who Wasn't There, From Hell, Dark City, Suspiria, Awakenings, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Whale Rider, Michael Collins, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Brothers Quay Collection, The Sweet Hereafter, The Cell, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Casualties of War, Cable Guy, The Deer Hunter, The Matrix, 8MM, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casablanca, Edward Scissorhands, Superman, Cape Fear, Radio Flyer, The Goonies, Bless the Beasts and the Children, The Cowboys, Silverado, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, Straw Dogs, Little Big Man, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, King of Hearts, Wisconsin Death Trip, Peeping Tom, Resfest, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Cold Mountain, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dances With Wolves, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Ararat, Patton, The Ring, Crumb, Terror In The Aisles, Bad Boy Bubby, Underworld, Hell Boy, Psycho, Independence Day, Burdern of Dreams, Shine, Hilary and Jackie, Jan Svankmajer Collection, Amadeus, The Red Violin, Henry V, The Aviator, Goodnight and Good Luck, Goodfellas, Casino, Bullitt, Ronin, Schlindler's List, Romeo + Juliet, L.A. Confidential, Se7en, Deep Impact, A Beautiufl Mind, Fight Club, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Vincent and Theo, Sexy Beast, Apocolypse Now, Hearts of Darkness, Play It Again Sam, Grand Prix, Braveheart, Visions of Light, Happiness, The Sixth Sense, The Mask, The Truman Show, The Pianist, Fearless, The Untouchables, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Thunderball, The Cider House Rules, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Toto The Hero, The Messenger, The Conversation, Amalie, Hostel, Art School Confidential, Le Mans, Casino Royale, Pan's Labyrinth, The Sci-Fi Boys, Zodiac, Grindhouse, Battle of Britain, Forbidden Planet . . .
The Sopranos, Deadwood, Night Gallery, Twin Peaks, Nova, Cosmos, Space with Sam Neil, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Project Greenlight, The X Files, The Bronx is Burning, some reality shows, Mad Men.
Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Dame Darcy, Julie Doucet, Lloyd Dangle, Kaz, Joe Matt, Dave Cooper, Valium, Ellen Forney, Craig Thompson, Robert Crumb, Blab, Preacher by Garth Ennis, The End Is Near! Visions of the Apocolypse, Millenium, and Utopia, Severed - The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, The Demon-Haunted World, The Book of Joe The Art of Joe Coleman, Dreamland Todd Schorr, Malicious Resplendence Robert Williams, Illuminatus Venosa, Pop Surrealism, Weird Rooms, Death Scenes: A Homocide Detective's Scrapbook, Sins of the City, Pad, Car Crashes & Other Sad Stories, Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials, Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture, California Crazy, The Happy Mutant Handbook, Apocalypse Culture, Support and Seduction, Hardyware, Art Cars, Immoral Tales, Fantasy Furniture, Renegade Houses, Infinite Worlds, It Came From Bob's Basement, Art of Imagination, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, vintage true crime magazines . . .
My mother and father, Carl Sagan, David Lynch, The Amazing Randi, Robert Williams, Stephen Jay Gould, KQED, The Wright Brothers, NASA, free speech organizations, artists, writers, filmmakers, teachers, gallery owners, art collectors, paleontologists, historians, inventors, great model railroaders such as John Allen, Malcolm Furlow, George Sellios.